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> I think there is a dangerous Luddite narrative ...

What was ever dangerous about the actual Luddites, as opposed to the story told about the Luddites by their foes?



Applying headwinds to progress causes immense compounded harm.


"Progress" is an undefined, or ill-defined, and highly subjective term. In the 90's, Chris Lasch even argued that it was a relatively new concept, and unknown to his favorite class of human being (the "yeoman", with the traditional US family farmer as a key example, though the concept goes back to at least the Greeks).

The Luddites were not against progress. They were against specific forms of progress in which they (1) had no say (2) lost their livelihoods (3) to others who benefitted in what they considered unreasonable ways.




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